Harsh J

There’s this friend of mine whom I told a good configuration to buy a few months ago. He said he got the configuration and it was something like a Pentium D 805 with 512 MB RAM. Now yesterday when I went over to his home for the first time, I find that his ‘new’ PC he got assembled from a local dealer is nothing but junk.

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If you run VLC [ Video LAN Client ] on Windows Vista and find that it displays no video output with just audio playing, then this post is for you.

All you actually need to do is to switch to OpenGL Playback.

Do that by going to the Settings Menu > Prefrences. Look at the right bottom of the dialog box that appears and tick the Advanced Options tick-box.

Now just click the plus next to Video. Click on Output Modules under that (Not the plus sign, just the menu item). From the Video Output Module drop down menu, select “OpenGL Video Output“. Thats it, you’re done.

Thanks to Kalpik for the tip and as he mentioned, its actually due to an issue with Aero.

So I’ve been playing quite a few games on my Vista backed up with a 1 GB RAM and my new 7600GT GeForce.

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If your bluetooth dongle shows up as a BCM2045A under Other Devices in Device Manager, there’s an easier way to configure it without having to install its bulky driver from the CD you got. And if you didn’t receive a CD with your BCM2045A Bluetooth Dongle, this guide is definitely for you.

Tested on: Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista Ultimate.

First, connect the device to the computer via USB as usual. Now Windows will tell you installing the new hardware has failed and so on, not even Windows Update can resolve it. This is typical of Windows as it doesn’t have the required drivers for this particular Broadcom BCM2045A Device.

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Vista is all about show-off. Seriously speaking, it is all about show-off. After a year of watching MSDN, Blogs, Websites, etc across the web speaking of Vista’s this and that, I finally decided to give it a try on my now-spruced up hardware.

Note: Some links in this post lead to screenshots on my Flickr set, so keep looking at your Tooltips or Status bar below to find them…

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